Patents by Inventor Fei CAI
Fei CAI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12380180Abstract: A method and an apparatus for few-shot relation classification and filtering, and a device are provided. The method includes: constructing a coarse-grained filter for filtering an unlabeled corpus to obtain candidate instances with a same entity as a seed instance and with similar semantics to the seed instance; constructing a fine-grained filter for filtering the candidate instances to obtain a candidate instance with a same relation concept as the seed instance; defining the candidate instance as a positive instance set, and defining candidate instances with different relation concepts from the seed instance as a negative sample set; constructing a false positive instance correction module for adjusting and controlling a proportion of the negative sample set used by a classifier during training; training the classifier based on a small number of obtained labeled instances belonging to a newly emerging relation and the adjusted positive instance set and negative sample set.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: National University of Defense TechnologyInventors: Fei Cai, Peihong Li, Honghui Chen, Jianming Zheng, Taihua Shao, Mengru Wang, Siyuan Wang, Dengfeng Liu, Yanying Mao
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Patent number: 12331067Abstract: A method for preparing 18F-BPA and an intermediate, by which high-purity 18F-BPA is obtained. The method simplifies the synthesis steps after 18F labeling, and is easy to operate and efficient.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: NEUBORON MEDTECH LTD.Inventors: Shi-hong Li, Jing He, Heng Yan, Fei Cai
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Patent number: 12333589Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method and system based on importance of item in a conversation session and a system thereof. In the present disclosure, an importance extracting module extracts an importance of each item in the conversation session, and then a long-term preference of a user is obtained in combination with the importance and the corresponding item, and then a preference of the user is obtained accurately in combination with a current interest and the long-term preference of the user, and finally item recommendation is performed according to the preference of the user. In this way, the accuracy of the item recommendation is improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: National University of Defense TechnologyInventors: Fei Cai, Wanyu Chen, Zhiqiang Pan, Chengyu Song, Yitong Wang, Yanxiang Ling, Xin Zhang, Honghui Chen
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Patent number: 12299584Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a few-shot event detection model based on multilingual prompt learning are provided, which includes: acquiring a training data set, applying a multilingual prompt model to any instance to obtain a predicted probability distribution of a trigger tag, so as to obtain a first loss; generating a contrastive instance and a bilingual instance, and performing multilingual prompt and cross-lingual encoding according to the input instance and the bilingual instance by applying the multilingual prompt model to obtain joint event characterization; performing event tag prediction on the joint event characterization by applying a two-level hierarchical prototype network model, and calculating a second loss; performing contrastive learning on respective instances by applying a quaternary contrastive learning module to obtain a third loss; determining a total loss of the few-shot event detection model according to respective losses, and performing model training optimization based on theType: GrantFiled: July 16, 2024Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: National University of Defense TechnologyInventors: Fei Cai, Siyuan Wang, Jianming Zheng, Wanyu Chen, Dengfeng Liu, Peihong Li, Shixian Liu, Xueshan Luo
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Publication number: 20250068700Abstract: A method and an apparatus for few-shot relation classification and filtering, and a device are provided. The method includes: constructing a coarse-grained filter for filtering an unlabeled corpus to obtain candidate instances with a same entity as a seed instance and with similar semantics to the seed instance; constructing a fine-grained filter for filtering the candidate instances to obtain a candidate instance with a same relation concept as the seed instance; defining the candidate instance as a positive instance set, and defining candidate instances with different relation concepts from the seed instance as a negative sample set; constructing a false positive instance correction module for adjusting and controlling a proportion of the negative sample set used by a classifier during training; training the classifier based on a small number of obtained labeled instances belonging to a newly emerging relation and the adjusted positive instance set and negative sample set.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Fei CAI, Peihong Li, Honghui Chen, Jianming Zheng, Taihua Shao, Mengru Wang, Siyuan Wang, Dengfeng Liu, Yanying Mao
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Publication number: 20250036969Abstract: Disclosed are a multilingual event causality identification method and a multilingual event causality identification system based on meta-learning with knowledge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Applicant: National University of Defense TechnologyInventors: Fei CAI, Shen WANG, Mengxi ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250028967Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a few-shot event detection model based on multilingual prompt learning are provided, which includes: acquiring a training data set, applying a multilingual prompt model to any instance to obtain a predicted probability distribution of a trigger tag, so as to obtain a first loss; generating a contrastive instance and a bilingual instance, and performing multilingual prompt and cross-lingual encoding according to the input instance and the bilingual instance by applying the multilingual prompt model to obtain joint event characterization; performing event tag prediction on the joint event characterization by applying a two-level hierarchical prototype network model, and calculating a second loss; performing contrastive learning on respective instances by applying a quaternary contrastive learning module to obtain a third loss; determining a total loss of the few-shot event detection model according to respective losses, and performing model training optimization based on theType: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Fei CAI, Siyuan WANG, Jianming ZHENG, Wanyu CHEN, Dengfeng LIU, Peihong LI, Shixian LIU, Xueshan LUO
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Patent number: 12124246Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided for laser ablation of a structural part. The method includes accessing a digital model of the structural part, and tiling the digital model into tiles that correspond to respective regions of the structural part. The method includes determining discrete tool paths of a machine tool for respective ones of the tiles for laser ablation of the respective regions of the structural part. And the method includes generating instructions for the machine tool to perform the laser ablation of the structural part according to the discrete tool paths.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Fei Cai, Paul Z. Thunemann, James N. Buttrick, Thomas A. Grandine, Natalie G. Murray
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Patent number: 12030669Abstract: A method and a system can be used for reporting proximity between technicians in an assembly environment. The method includes monitoring, by a proximity server, a distance between a first proximity detector and a second proximity detector based on a first signal and a second signal. The first proximity detector is configured to generate the first signal, and the second proximity detector is configured to generate the second signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Fei Cai, Farahnaz Sisco
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Patent number: 12025565Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inspection system and method for inspecting an optical surface of a laser scanner, the system including a directional optical source and an optical detector. The method includes moving one of the laser scanner or the inspection system to a position in which a beam axis of the directional optical source extends across but does not intersect the optical surface, between the optical surface of and the optical detector. The method further includes emitting a light beam from the directional optical source, across the optical surface so that light from the light beam is incident on debris disposed on the optical surface. The method further includes collecting the light at the optical detector to form an image that indicates presence of the debris on the optical surface of the laser scanner; and generating feedback to alert a user of the presence of the debris.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Fei Cai, Richard Calawa
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Patent number: 12001518Abstract: A method for predicting matching degree between a resume and a post, and a related device are provided in this disclosure. In the method for predicting the matching degree between the resume and the post, and the related device according to this disclosure, firstly the semi-structured keys and values in post information and resume information and their source are obtained. Then, the matching degree between the resume information and the post information is predicted by a prediction model including a cascaded pre-trained language model, a Transformer encoder and a single label classification model, based on the keys and values of a respective post information and resume information attribute, and corresponding source representations. Thus, by comprehensively searching internal interaction and external interaction of semi-structured multivariate attributes in person-post matching, the matching result is more accurate.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: National University of Defense TechnologyInventors: Honghui Chen, Taihua Shao, Chengyu Song, Miao Jiang, Mengru Wang, Xin Zhang, Fei Cai, Dengfeng Liu, Siyuan Wang
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Publication number: 20240149454Abstract: Techniques for controlling a process to prevent injury are presented. The techniques include obtaining a location estimation of a mobile transmitter affixed to an object, where the location estimation is relative to a location of a fixed receiver, and where the obtaining the location estimation includes sending an ultra wideband communication from the mobile transmitter to the fixed receiver and acquiring the ultra wideband communication by a phased antenna array of the fixed receiver; assessing, based on the location estimation, that the mobile transmitter is within an impermissible location; determining that the location estimation is sufficiently accurate based on a distance between the location estimation and the fixed receiver; and interrupting the process upon both assessing that the mobile transmitter is within an impermissible location and determining that the location estimation is sufficiently accurate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael Francis MITCHELL, John Dalton WILLIAMS, Fei CAI, Farahnaz SISCO
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Patent number: 11958257Abstract: An apparatus for consolidating fiber-reinforced resin material comprises a housing, comprising a barrel and a receptacle. The receptacle comprises a base, a lid, positionable relative to the base and relative to the barrel such that the housing is in an open state or a closed state, and a de-gassing port. The apparatus comprises a gasket that is in contact with the lid, the base, and the barrel when the housing is in the closed state. The apparatus comprises a piston, movable between a retracted position, in which the piston, in its entirety, is in the barrel, and an extended position, in which a portion of the piston is in the receptacle and another portion of the piston is in the barrel. The apparatus comprises a seal, which is in contact with the piston and the barrel, and a drive system, configured to control movement of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Fei Cai, Weidong Song
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Publication number: 20230381348Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of chelating agents, in particular to a bifunctional macrocyclic chelate, a conjugate, a metal complex, and use thereof. The bifunctional macrocyclic chelate is a compound of following Formula I or an isomer thereof, wherein R1, R3, R5, and R7 are each independently selected from alkyls or long-chain polymer groups, R2, R4, R6, and R8 are each independently selected from functional groups, Ra, Rb, Rc, and Rd are each independently selected from any one of H, substituted or unsubstituted alkyls, halogens, substituted or unsubstituted cyano groups, substituted or unsubstituted ester groups, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxys, substituted or unsubstituted amines, and substituted or unsubstituted aryls, ring The bifunctional macrocyclic chelate can complex most nuclides, and expand use of the bifunctional macrocyclic chelate, and the metal complex chelating different nuclides can realize integration of diagnosis and treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Jyams Pet Research & Development LimitedInventors: Jianfeng Xu, Zheng Wang, Wenbin Fan, Fei Cai, Huanhuan Yin, Zhigang Luo
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Publication number: 20230280279Abstract: The present disclosure provides an inspection system and method for inspecting an optical surface of a laser scanner, the system including a directional optical source and an optical detector. The method includes moving one of the laser scanner or the inspection system to a position in which a beam axis of the directional optical source extends across but does not intersect the optical surface, between the optical surface of and the optical detector. The method further includes emitting a light beam from the directional optical source, across the optical surface so that light from the light beam is incident on debris disposed on the optical surface. The method further includes collecting the light at the optical detector to form an image that indicates presence of the debris on the optical surface of the laser scanner; and generating feedback to alert a user of the presence of the debris.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Fei Cai, Richard Calawa
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Publication number: 20230259104Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer-readable storage medium are provided for laser ablation of a structural part. The method includes accessing a digital model of the structural part, and tiling the digital model into tiles that correspond to respective regions of the structural part. The method includes determining discrete tool paths of a machine tool for respective ones of the tiles for laser ablation of the respective regions of the structural part. And the method includes generating instructions for the machine tool to perform the laser ablation of the structural part according to the discrete tool paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Fei Cai, Paul Z. Thunemann, James N. Buttrick, Thomas A. Grandine, Natalie G. Murray
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Publication number: 20230242555Abstract: A method for preparing 18F-BPA and an intermediate, by which high-purity 18F-BPA is obtained. The method simplifies the synthesis steps after 18F labeling, and is easy to operate and efficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Shi-hong LI, Jing HE, Heng YAN, Fei CAI
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Publication number: 20230195850Abstract: A method for predicting matching degree between a resume and a post, and a related device are provided in this disclosure. In the method for predicting the matching degree between the resume and the post, and the related device according to this disclosure, firstly the semi-structured keys and values in post information and resume information and their source are obtained. Then, the matching degree between the resume information and the post information is predicted by a prediction model including a cascaded pre-trained language model, a Transformer encoder and a single label classification model, based on the keys and values of a respective post information and resume information attribute, and corresponding source representations. Thus, by comprehensively searching internal interaction and external interaction of semi-structured multivariate attributes in person-post matching, the matching result is more accurate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Honghui CHEN, Taihua SHAO, Chengyu SONG, Miao JIANG, Mengru WANG, Xin ZHANG, Fei CAI, Dengfeng LIU, Siyuan WANG
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Patent number: 11655261Abstract: A method for preparing 18F-BPA and an intermediate, by which high-purity 18F-BPA is obtained. The method simplifies the synthesis steps after 18F labeling, and is easy to operate and efficient.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NEUBORON MEDTECH LTD.Inventors: Shi-hong Li, Jing He, Heng Yan, Fei Cai
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Publication number: 20230127079Abstract: An apparatus for consolidating fiber-reinforced resin material comprises a housing, comprising a barrel and a receptacle. The receptacle comprises a base, a lid, positionable relative to the base and relative to the barrel such that the housing is in an open state or a closed state, and a de-gassing port. The apparatus comprises a gasket that is in contact with the lid, the base, and the barrel when the housing is in the closed state. The apparatus comprises a piston, movable between a retracted position, in which the piston, in its entirety, is in the barrel, and an extended position, in which a portion of the piston is in the receptacle and another portion of the piston is in the barrel. The apparatus comprises a seal, which is in contact with the piston and the barrel, and a drive system, configured to control movement of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Fei Cai, Weidong Song